Daren Clements

Daren Clements

Fibre Management Engineer (Europe)

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  • About me

    Fiber Delivery Engineer

  • Education

    • Sheffield Hallam University

      1994 - 1997
      BA (Hons) Product Design
  • Experience

    • Level 3 Communications

      Apr 2000 - May 2002
      Fibre Management Engineer (Europe)

      • Responsible for the management of eight European Optical Fibre Networks for Level3.• Liaise with the customers and Sales for feasibility of high level design• Liaise and advise technical engineers across the European Level 3 Network on design issues.• Instigated any Network Augmentations within the company.• Create a detailed low level fibre design.

    • Fluor Daniel

      Jun 2002 - Apr 2004
      Trackside Engineer

      As a design engineer I was required to undertake surveys on London Underground track sections, produce Microstation CAD designs and detailed documentation to support the installation of a new communication network, through a number of London Underground Lines for the ‘Connect Project’. Strict LUL standards of safety were implemented on surveys and installation of equipment and cables

    • DC Technology Limited

      Jan 2003 - Mar 2022
      Director
    • COLT Telecom

      Apr 2004 - Apr 2014
      Fibre Network Planner

      In my past role:I have directed all aspects of various responsibilities, including planning and preparing detailed end-to-end optical fibre designs over local, long, and leased networks as well as documenting fibre splicing, joint locations, collocations, patching, and customer termination positions. I have supported fibre and technical engineers with the construction of circuits with locations, alterations, and testing and delivered to the customers within timely manners. I have supervised and monitored network capacity management for future project areas, like cable upgrade for high use areas and new cable builds.Following are highlights of my key achievements that I attained: Secured and maintained organisational record to increase business efficiency.Managed and monitored all aspects of new civil builds, diversionary works, and circuit migrations within crossrail projects. Show less

    • CommScope

      May 2014 - Mar 2022
      Fiber Network Analyst

      In this position:I research, analyse, select, and apply fibre optic engineering concepts, approaches, and techniques within the organisation to support Google’s fibre networks, physical infrastructure (DWDM to DWDM), and datacentre infrastructure globally. I communicate and assist with reviewing vendor dark fibre/leased fibre OTDR results and geographical data reducing single point of failures. I lead all aspects of project operations from inception to completion within agreed budget and time constraints supported by an Agile PM approach. I deliver comprehensive and executive level support with future fibre capacity forecasts and inventory.Following are my key achievements: Optimised business efficiency by leading all aspects of network management operations, such as maintenance, outages, faults, restoration, and decommissioning.Increased organisational growth by supporting dogfooding new software ready for migration into production. Show less

    • Assignment @ Meta via Aquent

      Mar 2022 - Mar 2023
      Fiber Delivery Engineer
    • Microsoft

      Mar 2023 - now
      Fiber Delivery Engineer
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • AgilePM® (2014) Practitioner

      APMG International
      Feb 2020
    • AgilePM® (2014) Foundation

      APMG International
      Feb 2020
    • Microsoft Global Hackathon 2025

      Microsoft
      Aug 2025
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